A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge.

Vers. 10.

All the land shall be turned as a plaine from Geba to Rim∣mon, toward the South of Ierusalem, and it shall be lifted vp, and inhabited in her place: from Beniamins gate vnto the place of the first gate, vnto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananiel, vnto the Kings wine presses.

* 1.1THe second amplification taken from the full and manifest re∣storing of the Church, the which is contained vnder the type or figure of Ierusalem, the which was yet then to bee builded againe at that time, wherein Zacharias liued. Wherefore the true worship of God, and the true Church of God shall manifestly bee restored. And therefore it is sayd that it shall bee such, as a citie builded in some high place aboue the middest of the plaine lying round a∣bout it, the which is plainly seene on euery side. For as Christ spea∣keth, Matth. 5. ver. 14. a citie that is set on an hill, cannot be hid. And the place and space from whence it is seene, is here described to be very broade or wide, to wit, from the borders of Beniamin (in the which was Rama, 1. King. 15.) vnto the borders of the tribe of Si∣meon (where was Rimmon, Iosue. 19.) that by this meanes wee should vnderstand, that the sight of the Church of God should be euident, and in the view of all nations and people, and not hidden, or vnknowne. Further, as the Church shall be restored manifestly, so shall it bee restored thorowly, and hauing no want in any part thereof: not in the preaching of the word, not in the Sacraments, not in the discipline of the Church must there bee any thing wan∣ting. This perfection is set forth vnder the figure of the citie hauing all her parts, of the which reade Nehem. cap. 3. There is a like place Reuelat. cap. 21. ver. 18.19. and so forth, of the spirituall or heauenlie Ierusalem.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The second amplification of the former benefit.